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2024 marks the eighteenth season of the Canadian NASCAR championship.
The season opens on May 19 at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park and thirteen races later, it ends on September 24 at Delaware Speedway.
The cars competing in the NASCAR Canada Series are constructed to specifications and rules common to most stock car series. The chassis is a steel tube frame design covered with a fiberglass body and must weigh no less than 3000-lbs. Body styles are from manufacturers such as Dodge (Challenger), Ford (Mustang) and Chevrolet (Camaro). Engine type and displacement are dictated by the make and model of the vehicle. The carbureted eight-cylinder motors produce approximately 550-horsepower. Depending on the gearing, these cars are estimated to have a top speed of 160-mph. Round six of the 2024 NASCAR Canada Series was held at Ohsweken Speedway during the facility's Thunder of the Grand weekend. For the third consecutive year, drivers competed in the Freshstone Dirt Classic 100, a one-hundred-lap contest around the 0.375-mile dirt oval. The starting grid was determined by the results from three heat races. The finale was divided into three stages—stages one and two were twenty-five laps. At the end of the fifty-lap feature, the leader was declared the winner.
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The cars were lined up Le Mans style before starting the Freshstone Dirt Classic 100. NASCAR Cup competitor Chase Briscoe, in the No. 1 Rinnai / Mahindra Tractors Ford Fusion, claimed the pole by winning heat one. His crew chief for the event was five-time CASCAR Super Series champion Don Thomson, Jr. Sharing the front row with Briscoe was Andrew Ranger, who earned a victory in heat two. |
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The series 2022 champion, Marc-Antoine Camirand, entered round six at Ohsweken Speedway, second in the standings, three points behind his teammate Andrew Ranger. Camirand drove the No. 96 GM Paille Chevrolet Chevrolet Camaro to a victory in the third heat race and started the feature in the third position. On lap 8, he passed Chase Briscoe for the lead and wouldn't be threatened for the remainder of the contest. Camirand leads the title chase by one marker. |
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Second to Marc-Antoine Camirand was his teammate Andrew Ranger in the No. 27 GM Paille Chevrolet Chevrolet Camaro. The series three-time champion won heat race two and started the one-hundred-lap finale on the outside of the front row. The points leader, with victories at Autodrome Chaudiere and Eastbound International Speedway, was no match for his Camirand and finished in the runner-up position. |
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Former NASCAR Cup competitor Ken Schrader has competed in two of the three NASCAR Canada dirt events at Ohsweken Speedway. His best result came last year when he won a race. Schrader drove the No. 52 APC / Federated Auto Parts Chevrolet Camaro this season. He finished second in his heat and was gridded fourth for the feature. Schrader drove most of the race on the high side of the track and was rewarded with a third-place result. |
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The 2023 APC Late Model champion, Kyle Steckly, filled in for Ken Schrader last year after rain caused race two to be rescheduled, which conflicted with Schrader's other commitments. Steckly almost won his first race on the dirt but finished second. He drove the No. 22 APC / GSR / Stewart's Equipment Chevrolet Camaro this season. Starting in the eighth position, he passed four competitors for a fourth-place finish. |
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Event organizers made a car available for NASCAR Cup competitor Chase Briscoe. Briscoe is sixteen in the Cup standings and drives a Ford Mustang for Stewart-Haas Racing. He began his career in Sprint Cars, which showed at Ohsweken. He won his heat in the No. 1 Rinnai / Mahindra Tractors Ford Fusion and was on the pole for the finale. Unfortunately, a flat tire took him out of contention, but Briscoe stormed back to finish fifth. |
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L.P. Dumoulin entered round six at Ohsweken Speedway third in the standings, his best result being a third-place finish in race one at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. However, Ohsweken has not been kind to the series three-time champion. In 2023, Dumoulin collected a sixth, but before this event, he never placed inside the top ten. This year, he started eighteenth and finished twelfth, which dropped him to fourth in the points chase. |
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The top three finishers at Ohsweken Speedway for the Freshstone Dirt Classic 100. In the center is new points leader and winner Marc-Antoine Camirand from the GM Paille racing effort. Standing on the left is GM Paille's second driver and the runner-up, Andrew Ranger. Ranger led the standings before this event but is now second by a single marker. Completing the proceedings is NASCAR veteran and third-place finisher Ken Schrader. |
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| FINISH | START | DRIVER | SPONSOR / CAR | LAPS | RETIREMENTS |
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| 1 | 3 | Marc-Antoine Camirand | GM Paille Chevrolet / Chevrolet Camaro | 100 | - |
| 2 | 2 | Andrew Ranger | GM Paille Chevrolet / Chevrolet Camaro | 100 | - |
| 3 | 4 | Ken Schrader | APC/Federated Auto Parts / Chevrolet Camaro | 100 | - |
| 4 | 8 | Kyle Steckly | APC/GSR/Stewart's Equipment / Chevrolet Camaro | 100 | - |
| 5 | 1 | Chase Briscoe | Rinnai/Mahindra Tractors / Ford Fusion | 100 | - |
| 6 | 17 | Cayden Lapcevich | GSR/Ohsweken Speedway / Chevrolet Camaro | 100 | - |
| 7 | 13 | Kevin Lacroix | Gates Hydraulics / Dodge Challenger | 100 | - |
| 8 | 7 | Steve Cote | Envirum/BKFC / Chevrolet Camaro | 100 | - |
| 9 | 6 | Daniel Bois | Sierra Excavating/A&G / Chevrolet Camaro | 100 | - |
| 10 | 5 | Donald Theetge | RPM Designs/Vulcain / Chevrolet Camaro | 100 | - |
| 11 | 11 | D.J. Kennington | Super Clean/Brimstone Games / Dodge Challenger | 100 | - |
| 12 | 18 | L.P. Dumoulin | WeatherTech Canada / Dodge Challenger | 100 | - |
| 13 | 9 | Trevor Monaghan | Hal-Nor Mechanical / Dodge Challenger | 100 | - |
| 14 | 12 | Jason Hathaway | ASSA ABLOY/Leland Industries / Chevrolet Camaro | 99 | - |
| 15 | 19 | Larry Jackson | Big Chief Snacks/E3 / Dodge Challenger | 99 | - |
| 16 | 16 | Thomas Nepveu | Richelieu/Home Hardware / Ford Fusion | 97 | - |
| 17 | 14 | Bryan Cathcart | Curb Records/Trailers by Jim Bray / Ford Mustang | 96 | - |
| 18 | 10 | Glenn Styres | GSR/Ohsweken Speedway / Chevrolet Camaro | 49 | Driveshaft |
| 19 | 15 | Amber Balcaen | Brimstone Games/Castrol / Dodge Challenger | 43 | Brakes |
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